Mama, Baum wek?

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Before

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Before

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Cutting down trees in Mill Valley is a huge deal. Redwoods are totally off limits and the rest are usually subject to the sentimentality of one's neighbors or in our case at the mercy of our neighbor since what we actually needed to cut down was not on our property but on the property of the neighbor behind us.

But we needed to do some safety pruning and then just some aesthetic pruning. So in our first weeks in this new house, I invited over a handful of tree trimmers.

And a few weeks later and several trips down down several steps with several pieces of cut cypress, the job was done and the team left as quickly as they had arrived.

Nugs came home just in time to watch the pile of debris disappear into the mulch machine. All he could say was "Mama, Baum wek?" (Mama, tree is gone?" and all I could do was say yes and cover his ears.